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1. CE Alum to be Honored at Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference |
by Dennis Walikainen, senior editor, University Marketing and Communications
Moussa Sissoko, a 2004 civil engineering graduate, has been selected as Modern-Day Technology Leader in the 22nd Annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards and will receive the award in Baltimore this February. Modern-Day Technology Leaders are people of color who are shaping the future of engineering, science and technology through outstanding performance and achievements that merit national recognition. Sissoko is a structural engineer at Black & Veatch Energy in Ann Arbor.
“Moussa is a self-starter, possesses a strong work ethic, and has a passion for continuous learning,” says Black & Veatch Associate Vice President Darren Owens. “Receiving this national recognition is a testament to his contributions and skills that he brings to every project.”
“Moussa’s technical contributions benefit communities, clients, project teams and our company, and he is truly deserving of this prestigious recognition from the BEYA Conference,” said Dean Oskvig, president and CEO of Black & Veatch. |
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2. Michigan Tech Trails to Host Third Annual TalviTohinat Ski Races |
The third annual TalviTohinat Nordic ski and skijoring races will be held Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Michigan Tech Nordic Ski Trails.
TalviTohinat, Finnish for "Winter Scramble," is a community fitness event with 5- and 10-km cross-country ski races, a 2.5-km youth race and a skijoring race, in which one or more dogs pull an individual skier. The event is a benefit for the Keweenaw Land Trust, a nonprofit organization devoted to land conservation, stewardship and education in the Keweenaw.
The TalviTohinat draws approximately 100 racers from the Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin and Minnesota. “Skiers of all abilities and ages have a great time in the 5- and 10-K races, and last year we had a great turn-out of kids racing the youth race and also participating as beginners in the skijoring race,” said Erik Lilleskov, president of the Keweenaw Land Trust.
Registration begins at noon at the Michigan Tech Trails, with the first race at 1 p.m. For more race information, including the schedule and race courses, visit www.KeweenawLandTrust.org or call 482-0820. Severe winter weather has been forecast for race day; please dress appropriately. Check the www.KeweenawTrails.com website to find out if courses are changed or races have been cancelled in the interest of participant safety. |
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3. Students: Apply Now to Summer in Finland |
submitted by Pasi Lautala, director, Rail Transportation Program
Room is still available for a few more students interested in traveling to Finland and learning railroad engineering.
Students from engineering and other disciplines are eligible to apply to one of Tech's most popular summer programs. Summer in Finland 2008 is an international program in railroad engineering, where students spent three weeks in Finland studying railroad engineering and Finnish language and culture. Photos and video clips of the 2007 Summer in Finland are on the the website www.cee.mtu.edu/railroad/movies.htm .
The deadline to apply to 2008 program is at the end of this week, so get your applications in. For more information, check www.cee.mtu.edu/railroad/summer.htm or contact Pasi Lautala, director, Rail Transportation Program, 487-3547, ptlautal@mtu.edu . |
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4. Reminder: Seely to Speak at Sciences and Arts Dean Candidate Forum Monday |
Bruce Seely, social sciences department chair, will interview on campus Jan. 21-22 for the position of dean of sciences and arts.
Seely will present an open forum Monday, Jan. 21, 3-4:30 p.m. in Rekhi G05.
Search details can be found at www.csa.mtu.edu/CSA_Dean_Search/ .
Any questions about the search can be directed to Mark Gockenbach, CSA Dean Search Committee chair, at msgocken@mtu.edu . |
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5. World Water Day 2008: Call for Student Research Posters, Artwork |
Michigan Tech’s Center for Water and Society is sponsoring a student research poster and a student fine art competition associated with World Water Day on March 24 in the Memorial Union Ballroom. Both competitions are open to graduate and undergraduate students.
Cash prizes will be awarded to the best entries in the two competitions. The theme is “Importance of our Freshwater Resources–Water and Society.” Registration forms and submission guidelines are available online at www.mtcws.mtu.edu/education.html .
The registration deadline is March 17. All students interested in entering either competition must submit the online registration form to Carol Asiala, mtcws@mtu.edu ; in addition, students interested in presenting a research poster must submit a brief abstract (less than 250 words) with the registration form. |
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6. Tech-Talks Research: “Transportation” Jan. 23 |
by Donna Michalek, assistant provost
The next Tech-Talks Research session will focus on transportation and will take place on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 4-5 p.m. in the Memorial Union Alumni Lounge. There will be a cash bar, with the first pop, wine or beer on the house; munchies will also be provided.
In Michigan, the word transportation immediately brings to mind cars. While this is only one of a variety of modes of transportation that are available, it encompasses numerous areas of active research. In addition to cars, or automobiles, there are a variety of other modes of transportation including planes, trains, snowmobiles, spacecraft, bicycles and even rollerblades. There are also the infrastructure and propulsion systems associated with many of these modes, not to mention the effects they have on the environment, such as pollution and noise. Possible topics, but certainly not an exhaustive list, that pertain to this focus include
*optimal routing and scheduling;
*propulsion systems;
*intelligent transportation;
*transportation infrastructure;
*noise, vibration and harshness;
*engineered materials;
*fuels; and
*transportation and the environment.
All faculty and staff members who feel they can make a contribution to research conducted within this focus or who want to learn about the efforts of others are strongly encouraged to attend. In addition, if you are interested in giving a short presentation at this session, please send your two slides to Donna J. Michalek, donna@mtu.edu , by Tuesday, Jan. 22.
The Tech-Talks Research series is sponsored by the Provost’s Office and the Office of the Vice President for Research. |
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7. Fall 2007 Fraternity/Sorority Report Now Available Online |
submitted by the Office of Student Activities
Each semester the Office of Student Activities produces the Fraternity/Sorority Report, which chronicles academic performance, membership information, service and philanthropy reports, and additional important information regarding our fraternity/sorority community for the recent semester. The Fall 2007 Fraternity/Sorority Report can be found at the following website: www.sa.mtu.edu/greek/statistics.html .
Congratulations go out to our four chapters that exceeded their respective all-men's/all-women's GPA average: Delta Zeta sorority, Kappa Delta Psi fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Delta Upsilon fraternity.
For questions or comments about the report or to become more involved with Greek life at Michigan Tech, please contact Jason Bergeron, assistant director of Student Activities for Greek Life and Leadership, at 487-1963 or jtberger@mtu.edu . |
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8. Faculty Scholarship Grants Awarded |
Vice President for Research David Reed has approved the following Faculty Scholarship Grants for partial funding as recommended by the Faculty Scholarship Grant Committee. The Committee reviewed 24 proposals totaling $90,950 and awarded partial funding of $22,850 for 13 of the proposals:
*Associate Professor Nancy Auer (Biological Sciences), "Development of Research Opportunity in Biological Systems at Bering Glacier, Alaska," $2,350
*Assistant Professor Yu Cai (School of Technology), "A Search Engine-based Language Writing Tool," $1,500
*Associate Professor Hugh Gorman (Social Sciences), "Society's Changing Knowledge of and Interactions with the Nitrogen Cycle," $2,350
*Assistant Professor Gregory Graman (SBE), "Outsourcing Non-core Operations in Higher Education," $2,100
*Associate Professor Rudy Luck (Chemistry), "Conducting TEM Measurements at the PNNL: Anchoring Oxidation Catalysts Inside Hollow Large-pore Nanospherical Silica Materials," $900
*Associate Professor Linda Nagel (SFRES), "Developing Transdisciplinarity in Natural Resource Management: Fusing Science, Art and Ethics," $1,000
*Assistant Professor Keat Ghee Ong (Biomedical Engineering), "Implantable Body Sensor Networks for Early Disease Diagnosis," $2,300
*Assistant Professor Kurt Paterson (CEE), "Program Assessment Capacity-building: Intercultural Development Inventory," $2,350
*Professor Mark Roberts (SBE), "Sabbatical Travel to Write an Energy Economics Book," $3,000
*Associate Professor Ciro A. Sandoval (Humanities), "Beyond Words: Encounters and Miss-encounters: A Critical Intercultural Communication Reader in Spanish," $500
*Associate Professor Patricia Sotirin (Humanities), "Aunts in America," $1,000
*Assistant Professor Yuliya Strizhakova (SBE), "Effectiveness of Social Responsibility by Global and Local Brands in the US, Ukraine and Russia," $2,500
*Assistant Professor Martin Thompson (Chemistry/BRC), "Examining the Molecular Architecture of Gene Regulatory Complexes," $1,000 |
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9. Proposals in Progress |
Jeremy Goldman (Biomedical Engineering/BRC), “The Regulation of VEGF-C by Interstitial Flow,” National Institutes of Health
Michael C. Roggemann (CISSIC), “Collaborative Research: Advanced Deformable Secondary Control at the 6.5 m MMT for Detecting Extra-solar Planets,” NSF
Rupak M. Rajachar (Biomedical Engineering/BRC), “Novel Silica Phosphate Sol-gel Glasses to Study Cellular Response to Dynamic Mineralization,” NSF-Division of Materials Research
Iosif Pinelis (Mathematical Sciences), “Exact Inequalities and Limit Theorems for Rademacher and Self-normalized Sums, and Related Statistics,” NSF
Roger M. Kieckhafer (ECE/CISSIC), “CT-ISG: A Unified Foundation for Byzantine Resilient Data Aggregation in Survivable Networks,” University of Nebraska at Omaha
Victor B. Busov (SFRES/BRC), “Biomass Yield and Form Improvement through Modification of Native Genes for Growth Regulation,” Oregon State University
Ashley Shackelford and Will Cantrell (Physics), “The Impact of Organic Compounds on Deposition Nucleation Before and After Ozonolysis,” NSF
Mike Abbott (Sports and Recreation), “Access to Recreation Initiative,” MRPA Foundation
Paul Bergstrom (ECE) and Rick Berkey (IIS), “Wearable Video Capture System/POV,” V.I.O. Inc.
Judith Perlinger, Veronica Griffis, James Mihelcic, Kurt Paterson and Qiong Zhang (CEE/CWS), “Graduate Student Scholarships to Advance a Global Outlook of Economic and Social Prosperity that Protects the Environment,” NSF
Terry McNinch (MTTI), “TAMC Activities 2008,” M-DOT
Michele Miller (ME-EM), Chris Wojick (CEE), Chris Anderson (Office of the President), Jackie Huntoon (Graduate School) and Jim Turnquist (Career Center), “SSEED: Sustained Support to Ensure Engineering Degrees,” NSF S-STEM
David Flaspohler, Chris Webster and Amber Roth (SFRES/ESC), “Optimizing Both Habitat Quality for Conservation-concern Bird Species and Tree Productivity in Aspen Forests in the Great Lakes Region,” Ruffed Grouse Society
Thomas Van Dam, Zhanping You, Amlan Mukherjee and Jacob Hiller (MTTI/UTC/CEE), “NCHRP 10-75 Guide for Pavement-type Selection,” National Cooperative Highway Research Program-Federal Highway Administration
Paul L. Bergstrom (ECE/MuSTI), Stephen A. Hackney (MSE/PERC) and Anand K. Kulkarni (ECE/MuSTI), “Materials World Network: Quantum-scale Materials for High-efficiency Si-based Heterojunction Solar Cells,” NSF
Jaroslaw Drelich and Calvin White (MSE/IMP), “DRIFT Process Mechanical Testing,” Great Lakes Composites
Yu Cai (School of Technology) and Kedmon N. Hungwe (Cognitive and Learning Sciences), “RET Site: Research Experiences for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula High School Science and Math Teachers,” NSF
Andrew J. Storer (ESC/SFRES), Dana Richter, Thomas Pypker (SFRES) and Erik Lilleskov (USFS), “Effect of Invasive Earthworms on Ecosystems and Biodiversity of Northern Hardwood and Hemlock Forest Ecosystems,” Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation
Roger Turpening and Wayne Pennington (GMES), “Crosswell Electroseismic Imaging,” Z-Seis Corporation
Yun Hang Hu (MSE/IMP), “Atomic-hydrogen Adsorption and Migration on Metal-organic Frameworks,” ACS PRF (Type G)
Caroline M. Taylor (Chemistry), “Surfactant Influences on Ice Nucleation: The Impact of Long-chain Alcohols on Ice Formation”
Tim Scarlett (Social Sciences), “Archaeological Ecobiographies: Technology Transfer and Landscape Learning among Utah’s Pottery Makers,” NSF (Archaeology-BCS)
David Flaspohler, Chris Webster and Amber Roth (SFRES/ESC), “Optimizing Both Habitat Quality for Conservation-concern Bird Species and Tree Productivity in Aspen Forests in the Great Lakes Region,” US Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 3
Tyler Erickson (MTRI), “Behavioral Health Initiative GIS Support,” Altarum
Haiying Liu (Chemistry/BRC), Yoke Khin Yap (Physics) and Pushpalatha Murthy (Chemistry/BRC), “Glyco-functionalized Nanomaterials for Proteins, Cells, Bacteria and Viruses,” NSF
Ravindra Pandey and William J. Slough (Physics), “Chemical Reactivity Studies of Boron Clusters, Sheets and Nanotubes,” NSF
Lanrong Bi (Chemistry/BRC) and Ravi Pandey (Physics), “Design and Synthesis of Novel Modified Nucleotides to Facilitate DNA Analysis by Functionalized Nanopore-embedded Electrodes,” NSF
W. Charles Kerfoot (Bio Sci/RSI), “Implementation of the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) 2008-11,” University of Michigan/CILER
Veronica W. Griffis (CEE), “Regionalization of Watersheds Using Remote Sensing: The Physical Foundation for Statistical Homogeneity,” NSF
Robert Pastel (Computer Science) and William Helton (Cognitive and Learning Sciences), “Enabling Email for Computer Users with Alzheimer’s Disease via RFID Cards,” Alzheimer’s Association
Gregory P. Waite, Patricia A. Nadeau, William I. Rose and Jeremy M. Shannon (GMES), “Application of High-resolution SO2-imaging Cameras and Seismo-acoustic Data for Volcanic Eruption Modeling,” NSF
Kurt Paterson, James Mihelcic (CEE) and Christa Walck (SBE), “Eco-innovating a Better World,” NCIIA
Gopal Jayaraman (ME-EM) and Paul Nelson (SBE), “Enhanced Bio-morphic Helmet,” NCIIA
Fernando Ponta (ME-EM/APSRC), “Adaptive Hybrid Navier-stokes Algorithms for Fluid-multiphysics Problems,” NSF
Gregory M. Odegard (ME-EM/MuSTI), “Active Structural Fibers for Multifunctional Composite Materials,” Arizona State University
Roger Turpening (GMES), “Seismic Algorithm Development,” BAE Systems
Robert Pastel (Computer Science), William Helton (Cognitive and Learning Sciences) and Charles Wallace (Computer Science), “HCC-small: Graspable Interfaces: A Scalable Visual Approach to Human-computer Interaction Using RFID Cards,” NSF
Eric Minner and Ryan Gilbert (Biomedical Engineering), “Hydrogel Blend Releases Glutathione, IL-10 to Counteract Secondary Spinal Damage,” NIH
Steven Carr and Zhenlin Wang (Computer Science), “CPA-CPL: Feedback-directed Resource Management in Virtual Private Machines,” NSF
Jason M. Keith (ECM/APSRC), Jeff Allen (MEEM), Dave Caspary (ECM), Dan Crowl (ECM), Jay Meldrum (KRC), Jeff Naber, Dennis Meng, Abhijit Mukherjee (ME-EM), John Lukowski (School of Technology) and Barry Solomon (Social Sciences), “Hydrogen Education Curriculum Path at Michigan Technological University,” Department of Energy
John F. Diebel (Tech and Econ Dev.), T.N. Rogers (Chemical Engineering), B.C. Cornilsen (Chemistry), M.E. Mullins and M.B. Chye (Chemical Engineering), “A New Carbon Foam Cathode for Nickel-metal Hydride Batteries and Ultracapacitors,” MUCI
Roshan M. D’Souza (ME-EM), “Data-parallel Algorithms for Mega-scale Interactive Agent-based Model Solutions,” NSF
Bo Chen (ME-EM), “RI-small: Collaborative Research: Mobile Agent-based Task Level Control of Autonomously Functioning Robots,” NSF
Yu Cai (School of Technology), “HCC-small: On Autonomous Agents-based Intrusion Detection and Response Framework,” NSF
Linda M. Nagel and Christopher R. Webster (SFRES/ESC), “National Advanced Silviculture Program II of the US Forest Service, Ecological Systems Course,” USDA, US Forest Service
Sarah E. Stehn and Christopher Webster (SFRES/ESC), “Distribution of Mercury and Heavy Metals in Southern Appalachian Spruce-fir Forests using a Bryophyte Bioindicator,” Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association
Catherine Tarasoff and Tom Pypker (SFRES/ESC), “Pesticide Environmental Stewardship and Public Health Program,” EPA-Office of Environmental Education
Joan Schumaker Chadde (CEE), “Lake Superior Education Program for Teachers, Students and Communities,” Copper Country ISD
Nikola Subotic (MTRI), “DO5” and “DO4 Additional Funding,” SAIC
Brad King (ME-EM/MuSTI), “The Energetics of FRC Expansion into Field-free Space,” NSF
Peter J. Cattelino (Enrollment Services), “YES! Expo 2007,” Michigan Department of Education
Victor B. Busov (SFRES/BRC), “Identification and Transcriptome Analysis of Genes that Control Salinity Tolerance in Poplar,” Oregon State University
Alex Mayer and Carla Alonso (GMES/CWS), “Fall 2008 EPA Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Undergraduate Environmental Study: Carla Alonso,” US EPA
Victor B. Busov (SFRES/BRC), “Identification and Transcriptome Analysis of Genes that Control Root and Shoot Development in Poplar,” USDA-CSREES
Terry McNinch (MTTI-LTAP/TDG), “First Quarter TAMC Activities 2008,” M-DOT
Zhanping You (CEE/UTC/MTTI), Qingli Dai (ME-EM/MTTI), Julian Mills-Beale and Stan Vitton (CEE/UTC/MTTI), “The Development of Trial Specification Criteria for Mineral Fines Used in HMA in Michigan,” M-DOT
Qingli Dai (ME-EM/MTTI), Zhanping You, Thomas Van Dam and Jacob E. Hiller (CEE/UTC/MTTI), “Investigation of Pavement Distress Due to Heavy Trucks in the Superior Region,” M-DOT |
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10. Job Postings |
Staff job descriptions are available in the Human Resources Office or at http://www.admin.mtu.edu/hro/postings . For more information regarding staff positions, call 487-2280 or email jobs@mtu.edu .
Faculty job descriptions can be found at http://www.admin.mtu.edu/hro/facpers/facvac.htm . For more information regarding faculty positions, contact the academic department in which the position is posted.
Staff Job Postings 1/17/08
Systems Administrator/Programmer
Educational Technology Services/Online Learning
Programmer Analyst
Information Technology Services
Michigan Technological University is an equal opportunity educational institution/equal opportunity employer. |
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